Brioso^® Pro Read Me

This document contains late-breaking product information, updates, and troubleshooting tips.

Minimum system requirements and font installation instructions
Font versions
Family information
Release Notes
Known issues
Customer care
Other resources

Minimum system requirements and font installation instructions

For information on minimum system requirements and font installation, see http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fontinstall_en.

Font versions

To check that you have the correct font file, compare the font version of your font file to the font version provided in the Release Notes section below.

Family information

History

Menu Names And Style Linking

In many Windows^® applications, instead of every font appearing on the menu, fonts are grouped into style-linked sets, and only the name of the base style font for a set is shown in the menu. The italic and the bold weight fonts of the set (if any) are not shown in the font menu, but can still be accessed by selecting the base style font, and then using the italic and bold style buttons. In this family, such programs will show only the following base style font names in the menu:

Brioso Pro Capt
Brioso Pro Disp
Brioso Pro Light
Brioso Pro Light Capt
Brioso Pro Light Disp
Brioso Pro Light Poster
Brioso Pro Light Subh
Brioso Pro Medium
Brioso Pro Medium Capt
Brioso Pro Medium Disp
Brioso Pro Medium Subh
Brioso Pro Regular
Brioso Pro Subh

The other fonts in this family must be selected by choosing a menu name and then a style option following the guide below.

On the Mac OS operating system, although each font appears as a separate entry on the font menu, users may also select fonts by means of style links. Selecting a base style font and then using the style links (as described above for Windows applications) enhances cross-platform document compatibility with many applications, such as Microsoft Word and Adobe^® PageMaker^® software, although it is unnecessary with more sophisticated Adobe applications such as recent versions of Illustrator^®, Photoshop^® or InDesign^® software.

One should not, however, select a base font which has no style-linked variant, and then use the bold or italic styling button. Doing so will either have no effect, or result in programmatic bolding or slanting of the base font, which will usually produce inferior screen and print results.

Optical Sizes

Typefaces with optical size variants have had their designs subtly adjusted for use at specific point size ranges.

Please see Adobe Type - Optical Sizes for a current discussion of the uses of optical sizes.

This capability reintroduces one of the features of hand-cut metal type, which uses a separate font for each point size and is often optically adjusted. This is an advantage over the current common practice of scaling a single digital type design to different point sizes, which may reduce legibility at smaller sizes or sacrifice subtlety at larger sizes. The objective of optical sizing is to maintain the integrity and legibility of the underlying typeface design throughout a range of point sizes. The adjustments typically made to the design to optimize it for different sizes are: for larger point sizes, the space between characters (letter fit) tightens, the space within characters (counterforms) closes up (i.e., the letters are slightly more condensed), the serifs become finer and the stroke contrast becomes greater, the overall weight becomes lighter, and the x-height gradually diminishes; for smaller point sizes, opposite adjustments are made. Smaller optical sizes are also useful when output resolution is very limited, such as for on-screen display. One might choose to use a smaller optical size design for creating text on buttons for a Web page, for example. These adjustments can improve the legibility of intermediate point sizes further if there is a greater change in design at smaller sizes than at larger sizes. For example, the difference in design between Caption and Regular optical sizes, which usually have a difference in intended usage size of only 4-8 points, is often almost as much as the difference between the regular and display sizes, which usually have a difference of 10-60 points.

Although any of the fonts may be used at any size, the intended point sizes for the designs of this family are:

1. Caption: from 6.0 to 9.4 points
2. Body Text: from 9.4 to 14.0 points
3. Subhead: from 14.0 to 21.0 points
4. Display: from 21.0 to 72.0 points

Release Notes

For all fonts of family Brioso Pro: version 2.151 created on Fri Oct 19 18:31:35 2012.

version 2.151 created 2012/10/19

• Rebuilt fonts with new MakeOTF version.

version 2.150 created 2012/10/10

• Added TrueType versions for the remaining faces.

version 2.149 created 2012/06/15

• Rebuilt to fix a bug in the coverage table format 2 of contextual
• substitutions. This had no effect on layout, but did cause some font
• validators to complain.

version 2.104 created 2011/12/02

• Fixed tcedilla/tcommaaccent issue in the TTFs,
• Re-hinted upright TTFs and bumped version number throughout the family.
• (all except optical sizes)

version 2.103 created 2011/11/07

• New TTFs: Light Italic, Medium Italic, Semibold Italic.
• Updated hints, added ppms for all existing Italic TTFs

version 2.101 created 2011/06/25

• TrueType fonts now have the same vertical metrics as the OpenType^® fonts.
• This release includes only 7 faces: Bold, Bold Italic, Italic, Light, Medium, Regular, Semibold

version 2.100 created 2011/03/25

• Added Tcedilla to list of UC glyphs to be affeced by the feature for the italic fonts.

version 2.094 created 2011/02/08

• Corrected mapping of T/tcommaccent and T/tcedilla characters.
• Also corrected the form of all T/tcedilla glyphs.

version 2.093 created 2011/02/02

• Added code at end of name ID 3 'Unique Name' to indicate licensing foundry.
• Corrected outlines to remove extremely short line connections to starting point.
• Changed figure heigts in Display masters to provide for better interpolation of hinting zones.

version 2.087 created 2010/11/16

• Remove deprecated ForceBold keyword from CFF table.
• Update OS/2 table to version 4: add WPF names name ID 21 and 22 to name table, if needed.

version 2.072 created 2010/01/14

• Corrected font menu names in name table for Mac platform names. Name
• ID's 1,2 16 and 17 are now written following the same rules as the
• Windows platform names. Previous releases put the Preferred Name
• and Style in Mac platform name ID 1 and 2, and did not write name ID
• 16 and 17, for legacy issues with old Mac OS versions.

version 2.057 created 2009/07/28

• Added Windows platform name ID 8 - Manufacturer.

version 2.046 created 2009/05/05

• Revised shape of alternate caron accents in glyphs for characters dcaron, lcaron and tcaron. Adjusted default spacing of these glyphs. Added kerns.
• Adjusted shape of lslash glyphs.

version 2.040 created 2007/08/16

• Release for Adobe^® Font Folio^® 11
• Removed majuscule substitutions from 'ordn'.
• Removed substitutions from majuscule letters to minuscle, superior letters.
• Added legacy superior numbers.
• Added glyphs: onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior as duplicates of one.superior, two.superior, three.superior.
• Added legacy f-ligature characters.
• Added glyphs: fi as duplicate of f_i; fl as duplicate of f_l.
• Add new glyphs to appropriate kern classes.
• Removed Turkish language lookup from 'liga' feature.
• Font character set does not support Turkish, so language exceptions for ligatures are not necessary.
• Also, Turkish language feature coverage was not properly specified anyway.
• Added support for spaces in arbitrary fractions.
• Added glyphs: space.frac, nbspace.frac as new, thin space to harmonize with fraction numerals.
• Added glyph: slash.frac as duplicate of fraction.
• Added support for punctuation in arbitrary fractions.
• Added substitutions and contextual rules to 'frac' feature for existing small punctuation: period, comma, dollar, cent, hyphen, parenleft, parenright.
• Removed 'percent' and 'perthousand' from arbitrary fraction substitutions in 'frac' feature.
• The inclusion of the characters 'percent' and 'perthousand' among arbitrary fraction substitutions in a 'frac' feature was disruptive in that these glyphs often do not match other fraction numerals.
• Added small cap alternate for dotlessi.
• Added glyph: dotlessi.sc as duplicate of i.sc.
• Added dotlessi substitution to 'smcp' feature.
• Substitute dotlessi by dotlessi.sc.
• Added glyphs: "fi.sc" and "fl.sc".
• Added glyph "germandbls.sc".
• Added glyphs "uni021A.sc" (Tcedilla.sc) and "uni021B.sc" (tcedilla.sc).
• Changed smallcap "uni" names to AGL names.
• Changed four glyph names from "uni" names to "friendly" AGL names: uni015E.sc --> Scedilla.sc; uni0218.sc --> Scommaaccent.sc; uni015F.sc --> scedilla.sc; uni0219.sc --> scommaaccent.sc.
• Added glyph "uni0237.sc" (smallcap dotlessj).
• Added 'calt' to 'aalt' feature.
• Added contextual alternates feature ('calt') to the feature list of the "all alternates" feature ('aalt').
• Changed name of uni2014.alt to emdash.alt.
• Changed ornament glyph names.
• Glyphs which had a base name of 'orn' were changed to a base name of 'bullet' to ensure proper name-to-character mapping.
• Added glyph "i.dot".
• Added glyph "i.dot" as duplicate of glyph "i". Added 'locl' feature to substitute "i.dot" for "i" in certain languages (e.g. Turkish). Added 'locl' feature to 'aalt' feature list.
• Renamed litre glyph "afii61289" to "uni2113".
• Changed "uni" names to AGL names.
• Changed four glyph names from "uni" names to "friendly" AGL names: uni015E --> Scedilla; uni0218 --> Scommaaccent; uni015F --> scedilla; uni0219 --> scommaaccent.
• Changed name of glyph "afii61352" (numero) to "uni2116".
• Changed name of glyph "idotaccent.sc" to "i.dotsc".
• Changed feature order to enable stylistic alternates.
• Because of the order of feature instructions, certain smallcap alternates were not accessible via the stylistic alternates ('salt') feature. Feature order was changed to correct this.
• Added missing lowercase substitutions to small caps ('smcp') feature.
• Added missing substitutions to small cap glyphs: fi, fl, germandbls, dotlessi, uni0237 (dotlessj), i.dot, tcedilla.
• Renamed glyph "j.dotless" to "uni0237" (dotless j). Mapped glyph to U+0237.
• Updated legal notices (trademark and copyright) for accuracy. Amended, changed and deleted as necessary. Ensured 'Notice' field in CFF fontinfo dictionary is the union of copyright and trademark notices in OTF 'name' table.
• Added uni2010 (hyphen2).
• Added 'size' feature containing a design size value.
• Add default language system.
• OpenType language system coverage for script 'dflt' and language 'DFLT' was added.

version 1.008 created 2003/04/21

• First release as OpenType.

Known issues

• Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType compatible application.

Customer care

Customer Service
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Support Plan Options and Technical Resources
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Other resources

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created 2013 Jan 14